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How to see someone's first post on Instagram

Most times we are just curious to see the earliest posts of a person on Instagram. Seeing the old posts becomes a nightmare, especially if the person is an active user. In this article, you get to know different ways of carrying out that interesting sneaky act😂😎

  1. The first approach involves using a physical object on your keyboard's space bar and returning after a while. Damn, I shouldn't be telling you that🤦‍♀️😝.

  2. You can long press the scrolling wheel of your mouse(if you are using one) and scroll to the end of the page which automatically continues scrolling till it reaches the end of the user's post.

  3. The third approach which is the best approach for a programmer like me is the use of codes that run in the browser's console. I mean this saves your space bar and mouse scrolling wheel from extensive work😅🤦‍♀️. To achieve this you need to right-click on your laptop or desktop and inspect the page before accessing the console or use the appropriate shortcut(I think it is CTRL+shift+I🤔🤔). You then paste this code there.

window.setInterval(function(){window.scrollTo(0,document.body.scrollHeight);},1000);
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The downside of this method is that it can't be done on a mobile phone except you are smart enough to find your way around that. If you can, Please share with others in the comment section. Also, ensure that the rate limiter does not mess with your progress🤦‍♀️(You can't even stop that if it occurs. Can you?).

I remain Henry Fasakin, a software engineer who loves clean UI and designs. You can reach out to me on Twitter or LinkedIn.

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